iOS 9.3 has a serious bug, which is not exactly a surprise — something like this seems to happen every release. Some owners of older iToys complained their shiny was bricked by the update, so Apple has had to scramble to fix it.

However, the fix appears to reduce users’ security. Which is worrying — and frankly ironic.

Yes this is the lovely fix for “Cannot activate because the activation server is temporarily not available.” But there are more bugs waiting to be fixed, natch.

So this is iOS 9.3.1, right? Uh, no. Apple appears to have silently rolled a new build ID, without incrementing the version number.

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